Dear CAPFAA, There is no doubt that this academic year will go down as having some of the most memorable moments in history: the first debt ceiling debates, Hurricane Sandy, the Fiscal Cliff, the 2013 Blizzard, shopping sheets, scorecards, and now day four of Sequestration. ...

Questions about specific aid programs, regulations, and procedures? Student aid administrators can go to http://www.ifap.ed.gov/ifap/ for links to aid-related Federal Registers, the Federal Student Aid Handbook, Dear Colleague letters, etc. Even with all this information, we sometimes we are still left with questions about how...

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by Linda Peckham, Senior Training Strategist, Great Lakes Higher Education Corporation and Affiliates Higher education at large has responded to the social media boon by strategically utilizing Facebook and other platforms to improve admissions, yield, community relations and even alumni giving. Why then, has the financial...